I ordered one of the unpeened K98 rifles from Widener's. While it is definitely unpeened, it has one major problem that makes it nearly inoperable. Pay attention to the picture of the bolt body. It has an extremely rough, unfinished surface that makes working the action smoothly nearly...
My collection is taking a turn from WW2 rifles to the major US service rifles. Today I added a Remington M1917 to the collection. Now I am saving up to get an M1 Carbine from the CMP (they won't be listed until very late 2014, so I have some time). The barrel is dated 1918. It is a bit of a...
I jumped on one of those very few Savage Enfields that Aim Surplus had available last week. See the pictures below. The wood has lots of dents and dings and the metal has a brown patina that actually looks more like baked on grease and grime. For example, that spot on the receiver that looks...
OK, so here are some pictures of my K11 Carbine that I purchased from Aim Surplus in that mad rush when they posted all those Swiss rifles. I paid $259 plus the $10 hand select (I wanted to get a nice walnut stock). It took forever to get here as Big Brown "lost track" of the package and it...
OK, here is my new HRA Service Grade! I was offered an SA Service Grade, but I declined. What do you think, did I make the right decision?
The link is for the Slideshow:
http://s39.photobucket.com/user/bickle72/slideshow/HRA%20Service%20Grade%20M1%20Garand
Here are some of the details...
After all the posts here of folks showing off their cool Sino-Albanian SKS rifles from Classic I decided to get one when they dropped the price a few bucks. I got mine yesterday and I want to share my thought process as I was opening up the package and wiping it down...and pictures are worth a...
About a year ago I purchased a 1944 Mosin Nagant 91/30 PU sniper from an estate sale. The previous owner died in 1964 and he was a Navy Admiral. He served in WWII and Korea. His office (and firearm collection) sat untouched after his death. I picked up his sniper, Japanese Type 99 (monopod...